Missing file names in WinXP Thumbnail View

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Fixed.

How To Make iOS 4 Faster On iPhone 3G

Seems like it should help.

Fromiphone-hacks.com:

To disable Spotlight Searching:
*Launch Settings app
*Go to General
*Go to Spotlight Search
*Deselect indexing for all or as many items as possible
*Enjoy faster iOS4 on iPhone 3G!

Is your iPhone's speaker broken?

No, it's not. The bottom left thing that looks like a speaker is actually the mic.

I found this out here.

AT&T: We've Put a Tower Near You

From an email I received today:

The nation's fastest 3G network now covers more of Woodland Hills.

Dear Marc Rifkin,

We wanted you to be among the first to know! We've built a new cell site on Dumetz Rd near Woodland Hills Country Club. It's just a part of our commitment to provide improved wireless coverage with stronger signal and better overall reception.

The great news is coverage in the Southern California area will continue to improve as we expand capacity, optimize and add more sites in the coming months.

With better coverage on the nation's fastest 3G network, there's never been a better time to be an AT&T customer.

We thank you for your continued loyalty and look forward to sharing more good news soon.

Vice President & General Manager
Greater Los Angeles

Sweet!

Magic Mouse in Boot Camp

I had trouble getting my Magic Mouse working in Boot Camp, and found this Apple Support Article saying you may need to re-pair the mouse in Mac OS before it can pair properly in Windows. That still didn't work, but I found these steps that did (plus a reboot):

This is easiest to do when you have another mouse already working with the system...

1. Install your bluetooth support and service packs for XP
2. Go to Bluetooth devices from your control panel or system tray
3. Connect the Magic Mouse and wait until the machine settles down.
4. Click Add..
5. Check my device is set up and ready to be found
6. Click Next
7. Click the device from the list - it should appear as the address of the mouse (looks like a Mac address)
8. Click Next
9. Don't use a passkey
10. Wait until the bubble appears saying to click here because a device is requesting your attention (or whatever it says)
11. Pass key is 0000
12. Click Next
13. Click Finish
14. Go back to Bluetooth devices
15. Click on the device from the list
16. Click Properties
17. Give the device a reasonable name (like Magic Mouse?)
18. Click Services tab
19. Check drivers for keyboard, mice, etc (HID)
20. Click Ok.

In my case I had to reboot before it would et me select the keyboard services.

History of the Apple Startup Sound

From TUAW.com:

...the creators of the Dutch site onemorething.nl have posted their interview with Apple sound designer Jim Reekes (who also appears in Welcome To Macintosh). They met up with Reekes while at Macworld in San Francisco a little while back -- he's the guy that programmed most of the sound in the early days, including the famous Mac startup chime and the legendary "sosumi" chime.

iMovie 09 Project Lost

We went on a family trip to Las Vegas recently and shot some video and pics that I edited together into a nice piece to remember the trip. It even had a funny ending where it showed different people and made-up stories about their escapades in Sin City (yeah, I know whatever happens in Vegas, etc.).

After I had posted the video to YouTube, I wanted to export the project to iTunes so we could see it on our AppleTV. The project no longer showed up in iMovie. It was there in Finder, but even double clicking on it directly didn't help.

I wasn't able to recover the project, but since I had uploaded it to YouTube, the exported 720p file still existed. It wasn't a complete loss, and I reminded myself to back up more often.

To get to the exported file, I selected the project, right-clicked and picked 'Show Package Contents' (iMovie projects are actually special folders called 'packages'). Inside there's a folder called Movies which has the exported version(s).

FWIW, I checked out the project file itself, and it was full of the same character. The file appears to be a binary format, but normally there's something recognizable like a clip name. In this case it looks like iMovie decided to nuke the data. Too bad.

So, in addition to backing up I'm going through each of my projects and exporting the highest resolution possible to the Media Browser. That makes the files visible to other iLife programs and still gives me the option to export a separate file later.